UPPERMOST in the mind of Mrs Mary Crawford, who lives with her husband and two young children on the flash point Ormeau Road in Belfast, is the marching season which is looming closer.
"It's horrendous, especially in the way the area is policed for starters. What happens is that the community is policed. I am hemmed into my street, I feel like a prisoner during the marching season when there are Saracens blocking the top of the street," she says. "You can't do your every day things when that is happening.
From Omagh, Mrs Crawford (41), has lived "on the Ormeau" for about 10 years and she remembers vividly 1992 when five people were murdered by loyalists in Sean Graham's bookies shop close by. She remembers the devastation in the community, the anger and frustration that the murderers could come into the area and get away so easily.
"Policing was not reflected in relation to that kind of incident. Nobody has been charged with those murders.
"A lot of my life on the Ormeau Road has been in fear," she says.
From the peace process, Mary wants equality and justice. "I think what happened the last time when the peace process my biggest relief was that I wasn't going to be shot. Then it became apparent that was all the peace process was going to give to me.
"When it broke down, at that stage I had just begun to realise that really the peace process hadn't done anything.
"It hadn't moved. The peace process of just talking is not enough for me. There was nothing actually to be seen to be gained.
"We need a police force that isn't a macho police force, that isn't a violent police force. The police force has to reflect the community and that is both the Protestant and Catholic community but it does not," Mary says.
In terms of equality, Mary has two young sons who are 2 1/2 times more likely to be unemployed than their Protestant counterparts. "In terms of discrimination, there needs to be something done."
She wants changes to the justice system and an end to discrimination of funding towards Irish language schools. "There needs to be a recognition and acceptance that that is part of our culture and that is what we are interested in.
"Peace for me is not just an absence of violence. There has to be more," she says. She feels the issue of loyalist and republican prisoners should be addressed. "I think the speed of change has to be faster."